Methods and Applications of Analysis

Volume 25 (2018)

Number 4

In Memory of Professor John N. Mather: Part 2 of 3

Guest Editors: Sen Hu, University of Science and Technology, China; Stanisław Janeczko, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland; Stephen S.-T. Yau, Tsinghua University, China; and Huaiqing Zuo, Tsinghua University, China.

Gamma structures on surfaces

Pages: 363 – 370

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MAA.2018.v25.n4.a6

Author

Solomon Jekel (Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, Boston Massachusetts, U.S.A.)

Abstract

Presented here is a version of my talk at the Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Conference on Singularities in memory of John Mather. This article is partly expository. I will briefly recount the rise of the modern theory of foliations, describe John Mather’s contributions and then allow the discussion to lead to a report of work, old and new, on Real Analytic Gamma Structures.

Keywords

classifying spaces, homology, real analytic

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

57R32

Received 16 May 2018

Accepted 22 August 2019

Published 1 November 2019